Taking “Green” Beyond the Hardware
A presentation at IBM Go Green in in Raleigh, NC, USA by Shawn Wells
Taking “Green” Beyond the Hardware
Agenda & Introduction ● IBM / Red Hat Relationship ● Customer Story: The Bank of New Zealand ● Educating the Next Generation (zNexGen)
Red Hat / IBM Relationship ● ● ● Cross platform relationship founded in the late 90s (when Red Hat incorporated) Started releasing RHEL for System z in 2001 Formal Linux on System z agreement & announcement in 2007 (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21513.wss) ● Red Hat has dedicated staff to System z (we haven’t done this for any other H/W platform)
Red Hat / IBM Relationship ● Global Linux Technology Centers – Development centers located around the world – Focus on all platforms (System z, xSeries, pSeries, etc) – Red Hat & IBM the #1 and #2 commercial contributors to Linux code
‘Go Green’ Enablement IBM xSeries (x3350) and Red Hat http://www.networkworld.com/research/2008/060908-green-windows-linux.html?page=1
‘Go Green’ Enablement SYSCON showed Red Hat uses less power at idle (http://virtualization.sys-con.com/node/808417)
Customer Story: The Bank of New Zealand
Partner Enablement Integrating Red Hat & IBM Technology Into Partner Solutions
Educating the Next Generation (zNexGen)
Red Hat & IBM Academics Destination z & IBM Academic Programs – Joined Destination z (forum of System z business partners) – Free RHEL to IBM Academic Partners ● ● ● ● Marist College Binghamton NCCU San Diego State
Questions?
When thinking “Green Datacenters,” most individuals only consider hardware. This session delivered content to expand that thinking to tunables provided within the Linux operating system to optimize system power consumption.
Stepped through the Red Hat deployment to the Bank of New Zealand, which reduced power consumption by over 35% when compared to their legacy SUN environment.
